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lightship

noun

Definition of lightship

as in barge

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Recent Examples of lightship The clapboard houses, lightship baskets, and roses climbing up the side of Sconset roofs inspired a sense of permanence. — William D. Cohan, Air Mail, 23 Aug. 2025 From there, walk up India Street to Four Winds Craft Guild and admire — and perhaps purchase — artisanal lightship baskets. — New York Times, 31 July 2025 Privately, Peterson believed that the Valencia was likely past the lightship, nearing the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. — Longreads, 4 May 2023 Outside, visitors can tour the lightship Columbia, which for three decades helped ships cross the Columbia Bar. — oregonlive, 22 Oct. 2020 This accommodation allows guests to sleep in a 70-year-old British lightship (which is essentially a lighthouse in boat form). — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2020

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Noun

The prologue starts in 1986 in Newfoundland with a family relocating, uprooting their lives in the most all-encompassing of ways, taking their entire home — propped up on a barge and steered by a lone motorboat — across a bay.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026
That is especially true for remote communities that must have their fuel flown in or delivered by barge before the rivers ice over.

— Becky Bohrer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of barge

Noun

Passenger boats have not passed through these parts since the days of the steamship petered all the way out some 60 years ago.

— Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Sep. 2026
The paperboard card could be used to buy airline, steamship and cruise tickets, but the balance had to be paid in full each month.

— USA Today, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of steamship

Noun

Like the squeezy dumpling, this one has a blushing cartoon face and accompanying tan steamer basket.

— Eva Flowe October 6, Charlotte Observer, 6 Oct. 2026
The 12-piece set includes two sauce pans, two skillets, a saute pan, a stockpot, and a steamer insert with lids.

— Better Homes & Gardens, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of steamer

Noun

New orders secured The company has reportedly attracted over 100 orders for the new freighter even as flight testing gets underway.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2026
However, the average vessel isn't exactly sailing around the world for years on end like a commercial freighter.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of freighter

Noun

North Korea has intensified tensions with a series of military displays this month, including short-range ballistic missile launches, live-fire missile and artillery exercises, and the commissioning of a new warship.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2026
Earlier this week, Denmark accused a Russian warship of firing two emergency flares at a Danish military helicopter over the Baltic Sea.

— David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of warship

Noun

But the time required for the largest tankers to rest outside the strait waiting for crude deliveries from smaller vessels has effectively created a tanker shortage.

— Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2026
London — Oil prices climbed Thursday on continued worries about global supply following a record number of tanker attacks that sent crossings through the Strait of Hormuz to a two-month low.

— Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of tanker

Noun

Sotheby’s will offer Amedeo Modigliani’s Nu assis au collier (Seated Nude with Necklace), 1917, later this month.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 8 June 2026
Holmes elevated her look by wearing nearly $80,000 worth of Arielle Ratner jewels, including the statement diamond Gatsby earrings and the diamond Gatsby collier.

— Julia Teti, Footwear News, 21 May 2026

Definition of collier

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